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New Record Set for Military Drones Flying at Once

Oct. 17, 2012 9:06am

U.S. Air Force Sets New Record Flying 10 Drones at Once

(Image: Lt Col Leslie Pratt/U.S. Air Force)

We’ve seen swarms of miniature drones flying at one time in coordinated efforts, but amping up the size of the unmanned aerial vehicles to those actually designed for weaponized warfare and the ability to fly many at once becomes more complicated. In fact, the U.S. Air Force just set a new record for the number of Predator and Reaper drones flown at the same time. In total, there were 10.

According to the Air Force’s Air Combat Command website, this new record for a non-combat drone swarm was set Oct. 2 by the 29th Attack Squadron, 9th Attack Squadron, and the 6th Reconnaissance Squadron at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.

“In the last year alone, the work the operations and maintenance RPA teams accomplish every day has grown by two-thirds, from six to 10 lines,” Col. Kenneth Johnson, 49th Operations Group commander, said according to the post written by Airman 1st Class Michael Shoemaker.

U.S. Air Force Sets New Record Flying 10 Drones at Once

Drone pilots fly a MQ-9 Reaper during a training mission at the air force base. (Photo: U.S. Air Force/Airman 1st Class Michael Shoemaker/Released)

A line is described as the drone and all the crew required to maintain and operate the aircraft. Each of the 10 drones — four MQ-1 Predators and six MQ-9 Reapers — had their own crew.

With this new record, Johnson said, ”We finally have the physical capacity to accomplish our mission to increase programmed flight training and develop the best possible [remotely piloted aircraft] crew members.”

Capt. Andrew, whose last name is withheld for security reasons, is reported as saying with advances drone use “is only going to increase.”

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(H/T: Gizmodo)

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Comments (29)

  • look73
    Posted on October 29, 2012 at 11:13am

    http://worldoftanks.com/

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  • coldnorth
    Posted on October 18, 2012 at 1:41am

    And you wonder where they get the term “Chair Force”. Is that a facebook page open in the right corner? :)

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  • anothercomment
    Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:54pm

    This is interesting, referring to the June article on the COA’s regarding these drones, the placement of these drones appear to be pointing to areas of drug routes controlled by the 2 or 3 major Mexican drug cartels feeding the US.
    I’m also guessing one of these drones slipped away and made its way to Israel by way of Hamas, tks to OB.

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  • nighttrainno9
    Posted on October 17, 2012 at 8:03pm

    Hope they don’t mind if we shoot at them, I doubt if they will fly low
    enough to get a shot, but if they do, I’ll try. Isn’t it neat our own
    goverment is getting ready to attack us, I wonder if they realise
    that no taxpayers equals no revenue. Knowing washington they
    haven’t thought about that.

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  • Salamander
    Posted on October 17, 2012 at 6:10pm

    Want to see what’s coming? Take a look at these:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmWD76jwjbQ&feature=related

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on October 17, 2012 at 2:43pm

    Bill, HR 658, the FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act, authorizes the use of 30,000 spy drones over America to spy on YOU!
    A Lot of Republicans signed that Bill.

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    Smokey_Bojangles  
  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on October 17, 2012 at 2:21pm

    …….and they were all seen folowing Romney’s campaign bus.

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  • alexegz30
    Posted on October 17, 2012 at 2:00pm

    Drones were created and designed for the sole purpose of defending our country. When Bush finally allowed them to be implemented, they proved to be invaluable for defense. Since he left office, Obama has taken a tool designed to protect our country and turned it on our own citizenry. You don’t need many drones in the air for what it does.

    They are primarily eyes in the sky. Everything they see is sent to those in command. When you can be up to 20 miles up and send video as detailed as a sticker on a license plate over a ten mile area, that one plane isn’t what you should worry about. The response team is. Drones are targetted outside the U.S. for this reason. Yes, they have missiles now for use against targets being hunted for, but the information they obtain from observation is even more dangerous. Inside the states, they have no restrictions, which is why they were meant for military use.

    Turning this technology against our own citizens is like having the military turn their arsenal against those they are supposed to protect. Are we supposed to feel safer in that decision?

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  • babylonvi
    Posted on October 17, 2012 at 12:57pm

    Ten drones is a joke they will need a thousand times too that if they are going to cover the entire U.S. with attack drones to combat home gardens and attack the 2nd amendment.

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  • watashbuddyfriend
    Posted on October 17, 2012 at 11:24am

    Well now, more drones, Fast and Furious, information from Canada, DHS purchasing lots of ammunition, and Obama relationship with Chavez! What have you gleaned from this?

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  • Individualism
    Posted on October 17, 2012 at 10:51am

    maybe through drones the next event similar to the holocaust could be carried out.

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    Individualism  
  • Fripton
    Posted on October 17, 2012 at 10:33am

    Coming soon to a sky near you!

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    Fripton  
    • Smokey_Bojangles
      Posted on October 17, 2012 at 2:51pm

      Handed to The Communist Dictator by a Republican Congress and a Democrat Senate.That is what Compromise gets us.They had no trouble reaching across the aisle for Bill, HR 658.
      But Harry aint letting no Job Bills off of his desk.

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  • JRGJR
    Posted on October 17, 2012 at 10:19am

    Open your eyes America!!!! There will be hundreds of them in a few years.

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    JRGJR  
  • FreeUsAll
    Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:40am

    Capt. Andrew, whose last name is withheld for security reasons, is reported as saying with advances drone use “is only going to increase.”

    Yes, with the U.S. citizens as the new targets.

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    FreeUsAll  
    • Bonnieblue2A
      Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:55am

      Excessive rule of law under a tyrannical state is coming to skies near you in the immediate future. The next generation of Americans will never know freedom nor privacy, regarless of who is annointed through this next election. The best we can hope for is to kick the can down the road by disassembling the Obama bureaucracy and gain time while Romney assembles his own. We have a spineless Congress who is unwilling to stand up for the US Constitution.

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  • RightThinking1
    Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:28am

    Ah! An opportunity to place in usage a collective noun. Convention would make such an assemblage a ‘flight’, or perhaps a ‘swarm’. My suggestion is ‘dissimulation’, as in ‘a dissimulation of drones’ or perhaps ‘scold’. Maybe a ‘plague’ of drones?

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:25am

    So has Obama already given these secrets to Russia, China and North Korea?

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:47am

      He doesn’t have to. I’m sure they’re stealing them right from under his nose.

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    • Bonnieblue2A
      Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:58am

      How do you think Iran got its drone technology? Remember when Obama bent over and begged to get back the lost drone foillowing the contrived OBL assasination myth instead of the drone it self destructing? The Iranians sent it to China for disassembly, analysis, and reproduction.

      Could it be that drones are the locusts mentioned in the Book of Revelation? There will certainly be more of them in the skies than helecopters soon.

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  • Individualism
    Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:22am

    maybe the military will soon be the video arcade, since all soldiers will be controlling some device. maybe no more boot camp in the future and instead practice on xbox lol.

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  • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
    Posted on October 17, 2012 at 9:13am

    They can even land them on Iranian airfields so that the Chinese can take them back to reverse engineer them now. How cool is that eh?

    {Skynet wins}

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    Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve  

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